Quick CORBATM 3

Jon Siegel

Over the last several years, CORBA has become the preferred architecture for enterprise and Internet server applications. Now, with the release of the suite of specifications originally grouped under the banner CORBA 3, developers are using these highly anticipated features to build robust, scalable distributed applications on virtually any platform, in virtually any programming language. Written by a leading authority on CORBA, this book provides a quick and easy-to-understand overview of all these new features.

This book presents the ten specifications, plus OMG’s modeling standards, in four sections:

  • Integration with Java and the Internet, provided by three specifications: reverse Java-to-IDL mapping, XML/Value mapping that makes an XML document an integrated CORBA datatype, and Interoperable Naming Service with its CORBA URIs.
  • Quality of Service Control, provided by four specifications: the Messaging Service expands Asynchronous and Messaging based invocations for CORBA and defines Quality of Service policies for setting priorities and timeouts. Three additional specifications define special CORBA environments: Real-Time CORBA, Fault Tolerant CORBA, and minimum CORBA for embedded systems.
  • The CORBA Component Model, with two supporting specifications presented first: the Portable Object Adapter (POA), and the Persistent State Service (PSS).
  • OMG’s Modeling Specifications: the Unified Modeling Language (UML), the Meta Object Facility (MOF), XML Metadata Interchange (XMI), and the Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM) all provide support to CORBA developers before they code. The final chapter looks toward OMG’s future——the Model Driven Architecture (MDA).

The companion Web site at www.wiley.com/compbooks/siegel includes updates on the latest developments in CORBA.

JON SIEGEL, PhD, is Director of Technology Transfer at the Object Management Group (OMG), where he heads their technology transfer program with the goal of teaching the technical aspects and benefits of the Object Management Architecture, including CORBA, the CORBA services, the Domain specifications in vertical markets, and the modeling specifications UML, MOF, XMI, and CWM.

Table of Contents

  • Prologue: CORBA and Distributed Computing Grow Up Together.
  • INTEGRATION WITH JAVA AND THE INTERNET.
  • The Valuetype, and the Java-to-IDL Mapping.
  • Mapping XML to OMG IDL.

    Interoperable Naming Service.
  • QUALITY-OF-SERVICE CONTROL.

    Additions to CORBA Interoperability.
  • Quality-of-Service Policies.
  • Real-Time CORBA.
  • Fault-Tolerant CORBA.
  • Minimum CORBA.
  • CCM AND SUPPORTING SPECIFICATIONS.

    The Portable Object Adapter (POA).
  • The Persistent State Service (PSS).
  • CORBA Component Model.
  • SPECIFICATIONS SUPPORTING MODELING AND DESIGN MODELING DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS WITH UML IMPLEMENTING METAMODELS AND REPOSITORIES USING THE MOF EXPANDING OMG'S REACH: THE MODEL-DRIVEN ARCHITECTURE.
  • Appendix: Sources and References.

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Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Wiley Computer Books

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List Price: $39.99
0-471-38935-8
400 Pages
Published: 04/23/2001

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